Apples, Snakes and Bellyaches by Calvin Miller, 1990.

When Saint Paul preached in Eff-ee-suss,
A sleepy man named Ewe-tea-cuss
Thought he preached redick-cue-less-lee long.
As Ewe-tea-cuss was sitting in the window of the church
He rubbed his eyes and yawned and swayed
And nodded, dozed, and reeled and lurched.

And feeling faint, he fell asleep
And fell…and fell for forty feet.
He flopped and flipped and floundered,
Falling, falling, falling downward
Till he hit the fatal flagstones
Of the old Ephesian street.

And Paul felt most embarrassed
(And his face was really red)
That his sermon had gone on so long
That Ewe-tea-cuss was dead.

He laid his hands on Ewe-tea-cuss
And cried, “Be resurrected, friend!
Come back alive. I promise you
I’ll never preach so long again.”

And Ewe-tea-cuss began to breathe
And opened up his eyes and said.
“Paul… How very nice you’re here,
Your sermon really knocked me dead.”

Paul really beamed from ear to ear
When Ewe-tea-cuss took a deep breath
Because no preacher wants it known
He preached a healthy man to death.

Falling asleep in church: Acts 20:9-12
9 Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. 10 Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “He’s alive!” 11 Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left. 12 The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.
The Holy Bible: New International Version (Ac 20:9–12).